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Macron says Google, Facebook could be broken up

French president Emmanuel Macron in an interview with Wired magazine warned that Google and Facebook are becoming too big to be governed and could face being dismantled. He suggested the internet giants should pay for the disruption they cause in society, and should follow European privacy regulations. Macron said the firms are "not just too big to fail, but too big to be governed".

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